Only smaller villages and settlements of different tribes occupied the valley, which was used as a hunting ground, a travel route, and a warpath between the two great clusters of Eastern Indians in the 17th and 18th centuries.
(in alternative therapy) the use of the supposed power of crystals to affect the human energy field. Contemporary definitions for crystal healing. noun. the use of crystals in alternative medicine to attempt healing; also called crystal therapy. See crystal therapy.
But the philosophy of modern crystal healing is based on traditional concepts borrowed from Asian cultures, most notably the Chinese concept of life-energy (chi or qi) and the Hindu or Buddhist concept of chakras, which are vortices of this life-energy, said to connect the physical and supernatural elements of the body.